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title: Temporal Encyclopedia
description: Discover the key concepts, components, and features of Temporal for building scalable and reliable applications. Learn about Temporal SDKs, Workflows, Activities, Workers, and more.
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[Temporal](/evaluate/why-temporal) provides developers a suite of effective tools for building reliable applications at scale.

The following Encyclopedia pages describe the concepts, components, and features of Temporal in detail:

- [Temporal](/temporal)
- [Temporal SDKs](/encyclopedia/temporal-sdks)
  - [Go SDK multithreading](/encyclopedia/go-sdk-multithreading)
  - [Python SDK sync vs async](/encyclopedia/python-sdk-sync-vs-async)
  - [Python SDK sandbox](/encyclopedia/python-sdk-sandbox)
- [Workflows](/workflows)
- [Activities](/activities)
- [Workers](/workers)
- [Retry Policies](/encyclopedia/retry-policies)
- [Temporal Service](/clusters)
- [Visibility](/visibility)
- [Namespaces](/namespaces)
- [Temporal Nexus](/nexus)
- [Data conversion](/dataconversion)

For a complete list of Temporal terms, see the [Glossary](/glossary).

For information on how to implement the developer-facing features see the [Develop](/develop) section.

For information on how to use Temporal Cloud see the [Temporal Cloud production deployment](/cloud) section.

For information on how to self-host a Temporal Service see the [Self-hosted production deployment](/self-hosted-guide) section.
